FELICITY BRYAN

     AUTHORS REPRESENTED BY CAROLINE WOOD

SAM BROOKES studied English at Cambridge University and trained as a singer at the Royal Academy of Music. He is the lyricist of the musical Best Friends & Butterflies, which is being optioned for theatre/film production. As a performer he works under the name of Sam Kenyon. Recent theatre credits include the revivals of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. His first novel, Ogleforth,is on submission and he is currently working on his second novel, a contemporary psychological thriller.

CATHERINE HALL graduated from Cambridge University in 1995 with a degree in English then worked in documentary film production. She now writes for a range of charities specialising in human rights and development. Her first novel, All God's Children, tells the story of Nora Lynch, a young girl evacuated from London to a vicarage in Kent during World War II, and is narrated from the perspective of Nora in the present who is dying and trying to make amends for the sins she committed in the past.  Portobello Books have bought world rights and plan to publish in the UK in spring 2009.

ROSE HEINEY graduated from Oxford University in the summer of 2006 and five months later, her wonderful, darkly comic first novel The Days of Judy B sold to Short Books on the basis of five chapters. While at Oxford, Rose wrote a brilliant monologue play called Another Muffin which was performed in various fringe venues. In 2006, she co-devised and acted in a play Bite Me which was performed at the Edinburgh Film Festival and described by The Scotsman as "an immediate laugh riot."  Judy B will be published in the UK in April 2008 and Rose is curently working on her second novel.

SADIE JONES is a screenwriter whose stunning debut novel The Outcast sold to Chatto for a substantial sum and. Set in 1950s Engand, it is a dark, mysterious coming of age story with the page-turning quality of a thriller. Chatto have published to terrific reviews.  It has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2008.  Radio Four broadcast the novel as a Book at Bedtime and it has been sold in numerous territories around the world.

"In the tradition of Atonement and The Remains of the Day but in her own singularly arresting voice, Sadie Jones conjures up the straight-laced, church-going, secretly abusive middle class of 1950s England.  The Outcast is a passionate and deeply suspenseful novel about what happens to those who break the rules and what happens to those who keep them.  I loved reading this wonderful debut".  Margot Livesey

EDWARD RUSSELL-WALLING is a freelance writer and editor who specialises in business and finance and contributes regularly to publications such as the Financial Times, New Statesman and The Banker.  Quercus publish 50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know, which aims to demystify many of the business theories and buzz-words that the 'man in the street' may have heard of but find puzzling. The book was published in October 2007 in the US and in April 2008 in the UK.  Edward is currently working on a proposal for a book about Scandal.

MARTIN WALKER is Senior Director of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think-tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington. He worked as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper for 25 years, where he served as bureau chief in Moscow and the US, and as European Editor. His books include The Cold War: A History, short-listed for Britain’s book of the year prize and for Canada’s Governor-General’s prize, and named by the New York Times as “a notable book of the year.” He also wrote The President They Deserve; the rise, falls and comebacks of Bill Clinton, and The Waking Giant: Gorbachev and Perestroika, which was translated into 11 languages, and Martin Walker’s Russia, which became a BBC series. His most recent books include Makers of the American Century and The Iraq War.  His historical novel The Caves of Perigord  reached number eight on the Washington Post best-seller list. He is currently writing a series of crime novels in the vein of Alexander McCall Smith set in deepest rural France entitled Bruno, Chief of Police. The first two books in the series have been bought by Quercus in the UK, Diogenese in Germany, De Bezige Bij in Holland and Sperling & Kupfer in Italy.